Screen LibraryA people's history of the United States : 1492-present /
Presents the history of the United States from the point of view of those who were exploited in the name of American progress.
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HarperPerennial,
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| Publisher Address: | New York : |
| Publication Dates: | 2005. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Harper Perennial Modern Classics
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| Summary: |
Presents the history of the United States from the point of view of those who were exploited in the name of American progress. |
| Item Description: |
Originally published: New York : HarperCollins, ©2003. [New ed.]. "P.S.: insights, interviews & more ..."--16 p. following main text. |
| Carrier Form: | 729, 16 pages ; 21 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 689-708) and index. |
| ISBN: |
0060838655 9780060838652 9780061965586 0061965588 |
| Index Number: | E178 |
| CLC: | K712.0 |
| Call Number: | K712.0/Z784 |
| Contents: | Columbus, the Indians, and human progress -- Drawing the color line -- Persons of mean and vile condition -- Tyranny is tyranny -- A kind of revolution -- The intimately oppressed -- As long as grass grows or water runs -- We take nothing by conquest, thank God -- Slavery without submission, emancipation without freedom -- The other civil war -- Robber barons and rebels -- The empire and the people -- The socialist challenge -- War is the health of the state -- Self-help in hard times -- A people's war? -- "Or does it explode?" -- The impossible victory: Vietnam -- Surprises -- The seventies: under control? -- Carter-Reagan-Bush: the bipartisan consensus -- The unreported resistance -- The coming revolt of the guards -- The Clinton presidency -- The 2000 election and the "war on terrorism." -- Afterword. |